Disclaimer: I do not own KnB.

Pairing: Akashi/Furihata

Upside Down

Chapter 14: Plot Twist

With a dreadful look in his eyes, Seiji gaped at the scar that had suddenly appeared at the side of Akashi's neck. With a shadowed expression, he turned to Keiko and said, "It's the same scar. It came out later than it should have, but it came out anyway. He's going to be taken away from me soon, Keiko. He's going to be taken away from me just like how his mother was taken away from me by the same fate. I don't–"

Before he could finish his sentence, a handful of seaweed was shoved inside his mouth, "For the love of God, Seiji, shut up! Your son isn't going to die! We're not going to let him die!" Keiko snapped at him, "You've protected Kouki well. It's my turn to protect what is important to you. Calm down. We can shove death back at fate's ass. Get a grip."

The things that were spurring out from his mother's and Akashi's father's mouth –Furihata didn't understand a thing. What scar? What protection? He felt so confused, at the same time, left out. He wanted to get involved too. Not just for the sake of being involved but because he wanted to help Akashi –as a friend, as a brother, as someone who likes him a lot.

Despite the questions running through his head and the anxiety building up in him, he frowned and butted in, "E-excuse me… uhm… m-mom, S-seiji-san… I- I don't get what you're talking about at all, b-but i-if there's anything I c-can do t-to help, p-please, please tell me. Y-you d-don't h-have to g-get into t-the details if you d-don't want to, b-but I wa-want to do w-what I- I can d-do, i-if there's an-anything."

It didn't matter whether they would tell him what's happening. It didn't matter whether they'd allow him to get as involved as they are, but, he wanted to be of use –even if not to his parents, but even to Akashi at least.

It was okay even if he didn't understand; he just wanted to be of help.

Keiko was trying to enlighten Seiji when Furihata had suddenly said what he had said. Glancing at his son, she heaved a sigh. Removing her hand from her fiancé's shoulder, she walked over to Furihata and patted him on the head.

"You've grown strong, Kouki." she praised with a reassuring smile on her face.

Pulling her hand away from his head, she replied to her son's request, "I'll tell you soon, what's going on. You'll be playing a big part in it after all. Right now isn't the time and this isn't the place where I should orient you with the truth however, dear. I hope you understand."

She gave him an apologetic smile.

Just shortly after, her phone rang. Picking up the call, her smile faltered and was replaced by a serious expression, "Is that so? Alright, thank you for informing me."

Hanging up, she turned to her fiancé, "Seiji, I just got a call from the doctor. He wants to see us. He said he got tracks. He found something out."

Seiji's expression lightened. The hope in his eyes returned.

"I told you Seijuurou's not going to die."

Right after that conversation, the couple left the hospital and left Furihata in charge of watching over Akashi.

Sitting on the visitor's chair, he began to space out and found himself pondering over what could it possibly be his mother and stepdad were talking about. As he did, it came back to him.

'A scar…?' he remembered Seiji's words.

Remembering so, he got up from his seat and walked to where Seiji was standing when he said so. From that perspective, he examined Akashi. It didn't take him too long to see what his stepfather was talking about. His eyes widened.

'W-what the–'

'When did this get here?' he couldn't help but question.

It certainly not there before, that scar. Furihata was a hundred percent sure –and if Akashi had gotten it while he was carrying him on his back, then it shouldn't be looking like this already given the time that had elapsed. It should still be fresh.

Staring at it more, he was beginning to assume, "It's almost as if it was a wound from inside." he thought out loud.

Saying so, he drew his hand and was about to caress it gently for better understanding when a spark had ignited the moment his hand made contact to the scar.

The unexpected and out of this world reaction sent the brunette falling aback and landing on the floor on his butt. Glancing at his hand then at Akashi's neck in disbelief, he gulped heavily.

'W-was t-that just e-electric s-spark j-just n-now?' he mentally stuttered.

As he gazed at his hand in astonishment, suddenly, he heard a crackling sound come from Akashi's direction. Immediately turning his eyes to where he believed the sound originated from, his jaw dropped and his eyes widened even more upon seeing red and gold electric sparks seep out the scar and brown electric spark fight the two other colors back in.

Watching in amazement, his attention was diverted to his own hand upon hearing a crackle from the direction where he left it suspended. A gasp escaped his mouth upon seeing it leak out brown electric sparks.

It didn't hurt, but it was just not normal.

"W-what the heck…?" he couldn't bring himself to say anything else.

Shortly after, the electric sparks on both Akashi's scar and on his hand disappeared. Just then, he heard a groan. Turning to Akashi, he noticed the sudden flinch of Akashi's hand and the fluttering of his eyes. Assuming that he had awakened, out of worry, Furihata picked himself up, stood up and rushed to Akashi's side only to something that surprised him yet again, "Akashi-kun, are you oka–"

Akashi's eyes met his.

"Kouki, what happened?"

Furihata suppressed a gasp.

"Kouki? Furihata Kouki, is there anything wrong?" Akashi asked, frowning a bit.

Not answering Akashi, Furihata fished his phone out from his pocket and called his mom.

[ "Kouki, is everything alri–" ]

"Mom, something batshit crazy just happened and now Akashi-kun's awake. I happen to be staring at him right now in the eyes and well, I just noticed that his other eye isn't gold anymore and both his eyes are red now. What do I do?" he asked as if what was happening was just another daily occurrence.

[ "Something batshit crazy happened and now he's awake and both his eyes are– what?! Kouki, what are you talking about? Kouki, what happened? Kouki! Kouki! Hello! Kouki, mom and Seiji are coming! Stay calm!" –beep– ]

After Keiko had hung up, Furihata put his phone back in his pocket.

"Akashi-kun, can you please excuse me for a moment? I just need to check whether I pissed my pants or not."

Something was terribly not right.

To be continued…

Author's Note:

To the old readers, if you can still remember, I pitched in some KHR characters then. I didn't just put them there because I missed KHR. It was supposedly for this reason, but then I realized not everyone is familiar of KHR –added up to my list of reasons as to why I should rewrite the story. Fufu––

I hope this turns out just fine. Haha–

Anyway, thank you for reading. If you have anything you want to say, feel free to say it. Hope you look forward to the next chapter. Until then. See ya.